This NLCS matchup is what most so-called experts predicted at the beginning of the season, by all accounts. Yet the two teams took different paths to get here. St. Louis mostly took the direct path, i.e., they were pretty damn good all season. The Dodgers, on the other hand, took a winding path that almost got them lost and eaten by rabid dingoes, but ended up right back where the predictions originally had them.
We send Zack Greinke, our Ace #2, out to try to take the first game from under the Cards and keep the momentum going from the NLDS. We'll need it, especially from the hot bats of Ramirez, Crawford, Uribe, and Puig. The addition of Ethier, who
Let's pause a moment to taunt St. Louis:
Cardinals 2013 Team Picture
Personally, I started out the day nervous. Then I read Sax's morning post about the cliched media narrative on the Dodgers and Cards, and I got angry. Then I saw the post-season roster, and I got thirsty. Then I listened to analysis of the matchup on a few radio shows, and got nervous, angry, thirsty all at once. And that's pretty much where things stand now. After all the predictions, though, and all the analysis, it will come down to what it always does: Dodgers gotta keep pitching.*
cc: Fred's Brim
*That, and which shirt SoSG Sax wears
Dodgers tickets
image: courtesy Ft. Wayne, IN Civic Center
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Double play time.
Double whiskey time.
Double-Double time.
Fuck.
Get it together, Withrow.
Tank is empty Donnie.
Withrow - out. I can see it from here, Donnie.
Walk. Two on, one out, Beltran up. Game over.
Tank is empty!!!!!!
Nothing like giving up a walkoff to destroy Kenley's confidence for the rest of the series.
I don't understand anything Donnie does anymore....
Why is SVS in center, not Puig?
Fuck.
shit
Done deal.
Fuck. So, so many blown managerial calls.
piss
We deserved that :(
night
I'm not usually the manger-lost-it-for-us type guy, but the manager lost this for us tonight. LIke, about 20 different times.
We did deserve that, Wicks.
Gonna have to walk Beltran buddy.
I want to burn a sack of kittens now.
Donnie baseball is not a smart man.
PGT up.
Fuck everything.
Everything broke their way all goddamn game long and they couldn't come up with a timely hit.
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